When the odds are against you, most especially, in these times you must FIGHT.

Fight because to withdraw will not do anything positive to you. Fighting does not automatically means violence. Fighting means standing-up and devising ways on how to survive the challenges hurled by the environment around you.

Fighting can be fun! To fight does not make you serious. Seriousness most of the times deprived you of creativity and the free spirit critical in winning a battle.

But when push comes to shove, yes be serious but after accomplishing the task, after winning the battle, bring the good old reliable smile on your face.

Fight because human spirit is made to make adversity kneel down and surrender to humanity.

Learn from the experts, immerse yourself to the wonderful world of entrepreneurship and business, grab opportunity by the neck!

Philippine Business Expo (PBE) gives you the edge. It gives you the exposure and different sets of business opportunities and quality network that you will need to give you the EDGE in starting a business.

Besides the EDGE is the bigger horizon that the event will provide you. More than the exposure is a change of mindset and a fresh look at the opportunity present in this time!

Get all of these benefits and more!Philippine Business Expo is slated June 16-17,2009 at Mindanao Room, Sofitel Plaza.

The best thing about PBE?It's open to the public and there can no other best thing to happen to your time and effort that to rake in all the benefits that this event have for FREE!

Learn from the experts, immerse yourself to the wonderful world of entrepreneurship and business, grab opportunity by the neck!

Philippine Business Expo (PBE) gives you the edge. It gives you the exposure and different sets of business opportunities and quality network that you will need to give you the EDGE in starting a business.

Besides the EDGE is the bigger horizon that the event will provide you. More than the exposure is a change of mindset and a fresh look at the opportunity present in this time!

Get all of these benefits and more!

Philippine Business Expo is slated June 16-17,2009 at Mindanao Room, Sofitel Plaza.

The best thing about PBE?

It's open to the public and there can no other best thing to happen to your time and effort that to rake in all the benefits that this event have for FREE!

I have a young team that youthfullness is what we can boast as our strength! Youth being the same as energy and passion.

Being in the event industry, it is a plus factor. However, the challenge is how to realize the potential of the team. The potential is there but to harness it and convert it to results that is the journey that we all have to take. Together we need to discover ourselves.

Our organization's culture and values are very much the heart of our edge in the competition. We do business for our country. We do business to grow this country to one of the most admired nation in the world, particularly in the business events category.

But first and foremost, youthfullness must be blended with maturity, to which we are now focusing our efforts alongside maintaining our service with our esteemed clients.

I don't know if I sound Greek. I hope that I am no over generalizing so as to make this discussion go to a plain that is perched in the philosophical. I don't want that! What I want is how to convert the fire in the eyes of our young group to a productive force that will serve our clients and achieve our vision.

Our vision is to be one of the best Business Event Organizer in Asia not to feel our egos but to generate business in our country and make the outsider consider the Philippines as one of their business destination.

There are others like us, but for now I am concern about our group. Hopefully as I write, all of the members of my organization is on the same page.

No matter what, right now we will meet head on what is in front of us!

An exciting event is coming to town. An event that is focused on teaching future entrepreneurs on the workings of Global Trade.

Even though at this point in time export and import is battered by the economic crisis, there is no way but up as the requisites for normalization are being addressed.

In the Philippines, entrepreneurship is going strong. Despite the crisis, there are a lot of small business that sprouted all over the country. These small business have the potential to make an impact in the global arena.

The Global Young Entrepreneurs Summit will answer important questions on how to go about Global Trade and Business. Participants of this event will have an edge compared to others. Prominent speakers coming from PHILEXPORT, PCCI, Marketing and Exporters will provide important know how to students.

Global Young Entrepreneurs Summit is a project of Junior Achievement Philippines. The event happens on July 28,2009 at PTTC.

As I watched the daily unfoldings in my country, I notice that events which is the industry I am in is robust. For the past six months, a lot of important, annual and ground breaking events have taken place. Majority passed the metrics of success that we are using.

It seems that one of the strategy that majority of the companies may it small or big is event. They are all working hard to make their relationship with their clients stick! They are bonding with their customers and non-customers in an attempt to hold them and get their loyalty to enable them to survive the tough times.

Budgets in advertisement is contracting but budgets for memorable events are expanding or unchanged. Most especially, business events like trade shows and expos are getting a lion share.

Even compared against online advertisement, in the Philippines events are way above if not above of online advertisement ( I still don't have a data for this but what I have are personal encounters with online sales and marketer and event organizers and managers).

The growing inclination to hold more events in this trying times proved that people wanted to gather and allay their fears and insecurities. Events gives comfort and relationship that each and one of us very much need today. This realization is what the companies are banking on.

Philippine Business Expo (PBE) is an event of Philippine Marketing Association (PMA). PBE is a concurrent event along side with National Marketing Conference on June 16 & 17 at Mindanao Hall Hotel Sofitel Philippine Plaza, which will gather marketing managers, owners, entrepreneurs and other decision makers of different organizations.

The exhibition will gather not only participants from National Marketing Conference but buyers and sellers from all over Metro Manila and the Country. The two day event aims to congregate 5,000 visitors coming from different business associations, institutions, entrepreneur and OFW groups, and universities.

It will feature OPEN business seminars on entrepreneurship, marketing and sales, business management and business opportunities presentations while showcasing 70 plus exhibitors that will present different business opportunities to visitors.

Philippine International Parking Expo & Conference (PIPEC) is the first and grandest gathering of parking business suppliers, operators and professionals in the country as well as in South East Asia on October 27 & 28 at Trade Hall 4, SMX Convention Center, Mall ofAsia Complex, Pasay City, Philippines.

What Benefits You Can Get

-Learn the salient points of the parking industry and the challenges facing it from our prominent speakers -Lots of opportunities you can explore that the industry offers-Develop understanding and networks that will prove precious as you return from operating your own parking business or in starting your very first parking operation-Be part of the first Philippine International Parking Expo & Conference in South East Asia!-New business and sales

-Parking 101: The Basic Elements of Running A Gold Standard Parking OperationPeter Guest (President – British Parking Association 2006/07)The global gold standard of parking is a set of fundamental standard parking operators must aspire for to run an excellent parking operations. What are the elements of this standard and how can we achieve it are the compelling issues that will be answered in this session.-Best Practices in Local Parking SecurityDr. Eduardo M. Fulgencio, CPP, CSP, CFESecurity is one of the pillars in running a successful parking operation. In the Philippines, be amazed and be updated on the best practices that our local parking security has instituted.

-Data Mining your PARCS (Parking Access/Revenue Control System)Dennis Cunning (CAPP)Parking Revenue is the lifeblood of the business. Listen, learn and bring your hardest problem when it comes to revenue control and our resource speaker will give you practical and doable actions in increasing your revenues as you data mine your PARCS.

Day 2 (October 28)

-On Street Parking and Price SettingJohn Van Horn (Parking World Publisher & Editor)The growing number of cars gave birth to street parking. What are the issues and how can we create a pricing system that is agreeable to the public should we professionalize our street parking.

-Parking Management Liabilities on Loss and Damages: Legalities, Limitations and Expectations”Den Den Tesoro (Vice President – Aon Philippines)Explore the liabilities, limitations, legalities that the parking operators faced in running an operation and the public expectation as they use the services of the parking operators.

-Parking Security: Addressing the Crime and Other Security Challenges in Parking OperationAngus Stevenson-Hamilton (Director of Corporate Security, Shangri-la Group of Hotels & Resorts)The first day is about the local perspective in security. This session is about the global challenges in the parking security. Are the local challenges the same as what is being faced by other countries. What are the global best practices in the parking security matters?